Here Are The “Best” Colleges Of 2017

Sure, we all want to be the best Greek life school, best party school, the fun ones. But U.S. News just released their lists created from factors such as class size, student to faculty ratio, and opinions from educational scholars. The largest factor was graduation rate and retention rate. Yawn.

Anyway here are the top ten National Universities, and dang Stanford, despite Katie Ledecky being a beast, you guys have dropped.

Princeton University

Harvard University

University of Chicago (tie)

Yale University (tie)

Columbia University (tie)

Stanford University (tie)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Duke University (tie)

University of Pennsylvania (tie)

Johns Hopkins University

Here’s the top ten National Liberal Arts Colleges (a.k.a. top ten least srat colleges which I’m not afraid to say because I doubt any of you read this):

Williams College

Amherst College

Wellesley College

Middlebury College (tie)

Swarthmore College (tie)

Bowdoin College

Carleton College (tie)

Pomona College (tie)

Claremont McKenna College (tie)

Davidson College (tie)

Top ten Public National Universities.

University of California—Berkeley

University of California—Los Angeles (tie)

University of Virginia (tie)

University of Michigan—Ann Arbor

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

College of William & Mary

Georgia Institute of Technology

University of California–Santa Barbara

University of California–Irvine

University of California–Davis (tie)

University of California–San Diego (tie)

University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign (tie)

University of Wisconsin–Madison (tie)

And lastly, here are the top five Public National Liberal Arts Colleges. I have no idea what that means, but the top four gave me a pretty good idea.

United States Naval Academy

United States Military Academy

United States Air Force Academy

Virginia Military Institute

New College of Florida

Also relevant is the top ten schools with the most students in sororities. Slightly surprising here.

Washington and Lee University – 81%

Davidson College – 70%

DePauw University – 67%

Welch College – 66%

Rhodes College – 62%

University of the South – 60%

Furman University – 58% (tie)

Milksops College – 58% (tie)

Wake Forest University – 57%

Texas Christian University – 55% (tie)

Transylvania University – 55% (tie)

Dang, what is going on at Washington and Lee? Can I go there? Need updates now..

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Surprisingly tmarcs to be a lawyer. She has a horrible Chicago-Italian mixed with Midwestern accent. Would never make it in a sorority in the South. Is a liability but is good for the chapter GPA. Tell her how to live a less fraternity, more sorority life at tmarcs.TSM@gmail.com.